[Kmymoney-devel] Prices dialog

[Alvaro Soliverez]

On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 2:59 AM, Thomas Baumgart <thb at net-bembel.de> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> on Wednesday 16 June 2010 05:07:27 Alvaro Soliverez wrote:
>
>
> > >
> > > Ah, but because the securities are all one and the same, their names
> > > also will be the same.  It is the parent  investment account name that
> > > is the needed information.
> > >
> > > Just to be totally clear, I have the same security in three different
> > > investment accounts, one for each year of purchase (because the
> > > investment company separates dividend payments by year (their account
> is
> > > per year).  Each security has the same name because they are identical,
> > > but the investment account names differ.  When I edit an entry
> > > in the prices list, the only way to be sure it's the correct entry is
> to
> > > have its parent account name visible.
> >
> > It is already complicated to get the corresponding account, and you need
> >  the parent account?
> > Can't you temporarily change the name of the account, match by that and
> >  then change it back? :/
> >
> > I've been thinking about this issue, and I'd agree with adding a "Stock
> > name" column for the case when a price is related to an invesment.
> Besides
> > this very specific case, I don't see the point to add the parent name. Of
> > course, there must be cases I probably haven't thought about, but let's
> try
> > to keep the columns to a minimum.
>
> Just an idea that came through my mind and which I want to share here: how
> about a tooltip to show this kind of information in said dialog?
>
>
Tooltips are not really practical for showing that much information for so
many items. I don't think it would be very usable, at least for this case.
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